What year did Hoshea's reign end in Israel?

Q: what year did Hoshea's reign end in Israel?

A: it depends what calendar you are using!

On the Gregorian calendar (the one you might have on your wall) the year was 657 BC.

On the Hebrew calendar, sometimes called the biblical calendar, the year was 3390 AM.

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Related Verses

2 Kings 17:1 – In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.

2 Kings 17:5-7 – 5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

7 For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods